Craig Thacker
Microsoft Defender Technical Lead at NatWest Group
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCraig Thacker is a cloud-focused engineering leader with eight years’ experience designing, automating and securing Azure platforms across public sector and finance, now serving as Microsoft Defender Technical Lead at NatWest. He combines hands-on Terraform/Bicep IaC, Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD and Python automation with practical FinOps and migration experience, having modernised legacy data systems and built scalable MLOps proofs-of-concept. A postgraduate in Information and Network Security, Craig has repeatedly stepped into leadership and mentorship roles—running platform teams, shaping landing zones and creating pipeline templates that enable repeatable, secure deployments. He’s an active open-source and community advocate in Scotland, founding LibreDevOps to share tooling and training resources and to help grow local talent. Notably, his background spans both network engineering and applied security, giving him a rare blend of infrastructure depth and cloud-native operational security.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Information and Network Security, Postgraduate Information and Network Security at University of the West of ScotlandNC Electronic Engineering, NC Electronic Engineering at Cumbernauld CollegeSt. Maurice's High SchoolHND Computing Technical Support, HND Computing Technical Support at New College Lanarkshire
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Github Skills (70)
consumption9
azure8
bdd8
hashicorp8
architecture8
azure-pipelines8
tfsec8
terraform8
testing8
compliance8
orphan8
rainbow8
azurerm8
landing-zone8
workspace7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
libre-devops/terraform-azurerm-linux-vm
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
libre-devops/terraform-azurerm-run-vm-command
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 31 commits, 31 pushes in 10 months
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